Motivational Quotes

Time

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Time

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

11.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

12.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

14.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

15.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

17.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

19.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

21.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

22.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

29.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

40.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

42.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.